In the early morning hours of September 6, the golden light of the morning sun shone over the earth, and the offensive battle that decided the fate of Leningrad began. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The unit responsible for the offensive in the direction of Lake Ladoga and the ground link between the Leningrad Front and the Volkhov Front was the 57th Panzer Corps under the command of General Adolf Konzen.

The 57th Panzer Army was originally subordinate to Army Group Center, the 3rd Panzer Army, which was seconded to Army Group North after capturing the Smolensk region and separating forces to support the northern and southern flanks.

The Panzer Corps consists of the 12th and 19th Panzer Divisions and the 18th Motorized Rifle Division, reinforced by the 30th Infantry Division and the 612th Assault Gun Battalion.

From the cities of Goré and Mga on the banks of the Mga River, Admiral Konzen threw in the 30 Infantry, 12 and 18 Motorized Infantry Divisions from left to right, with the 19 Panzer Division remaining in reserve.

The 30 Infantry Division was tasked with launching an offensive in the north and north-west directions, expelling the units of the Leningrad Front to the right bank of the Neva.

The 12 Panzer Division and the 18 Motorized Rifle Division were responsible for launching an offensive to the east, driving the troops of the Volkhov Front to the east.

The two cities adjacent to the banks of the Mga River, Goré and Mga, were the starting positions of the 6th and 26th Infantry Regiments of the 30th Infantry Division, respectively.

The 30th Infantry Division was reinforced by the 612 Assault Gun Battalion, and each of the three subordinate regiments was reinforced by a No. 3 Assault Gun Company.

However, on the front line of the Muga River, the real trump card of the 30 Infantry Division was the divisional artillery regiment.

The 30 Infantry Division is a unit with a glorious history.

In the Polish campaign, it was this 30 Infantry Division that was counterattacked by the Polish army and was routed by an overwhelmingly superior number of Polish troops on the march.

General Heinz von Rosen, who was the commander of the air defense battalion at the time, and his men were unfortunately affected and suffered heavy losses in the first battle.

General Rosen then asked President Ge for help, triggering a series of historical events such as the parachute of the German airborne troops led by Spudent on the battlefield, joint counterattacks, and grenade teaching.

In the French campaign after the Polish Campaign, General Rosen became a rising star in the German military circles with his great prophecy of "the destruction of France in eight weeks".

When General Rosen was in full swing, he did not forget the 30 Infantry Division, which had suffered together, especially the artillerymen of the division, who were most familiar with it.

The artillerymen of the 30th Infantry Division first learned TOT artillery tactics from General Rosen through Lieutenant Randolph and now Colonel Randolph, the commander of the artillery regiment.

Subsequently, the artillery regiment received a battalion of Wasp 105-mm self-propelled howitzers sent by General Rosen, becoming the only German infantry division with self-propelled howitzers.

Not only that, before the start of the war against the Soviet Union, a company of the Blackwater Special Reconnaissance Regiment was ordered to reinforce the artillery regiment of the 30 Infantry Division, and this reconnaissance company brought six FI-282 Hummingbird helicopters to the artillery regiment.

At seven o'clock in the morning, the attack began on time, and the target was directly aimed at the first line of defense of the Soviet army in the north, Kricklovo.

Creeklovo is located two to four kilometres from the cities of Goré and Mga, with large areas of virgin forest and marshland in between, with only four roads leading to it.

The infantry of the two infantry regiments, the sharper troops, walking close to the forest on both sides of the road, rushed on foot towards Klicklovo.

Behind them, two No. 3 assault guns followed them on every main road, and farther behind, trucks towed infantry guns, anti-aircraft guns, anti-tank guns and other weapons slowly followed.

Above their heads, ME-109 fighters and Stuka dive bombers had already been put into battle, bombing Soviet positions.

Soon, Soviet fighters appeared on the battlefield, MiG-La series fighters and ME-109 fighters were fighting in the sky, and the Il-2 attack planes ignored the pursuit of German fighters, rushed to the ground at a height close to the treetops, and bombed the German troops marching on the forest road.

German infantry ducked into the forests on both sides of the road to avoid air raids, and anti-aircraft guns spewed tongues of fire to stop the Il-2 from wreaking havoc.

Under the harassment of Soviet fighters and artillery fire, the vanguard of the 6th Infantry Regiment took the lead in crossing a two-kilometer forest road and arrived on the southwestern outskirts of the city of Klicklovo, where the battle between the army and the army began.

The German infantry hid at the edge of the forest, using tree trunks and shrubs as cover, and fired at the Soviet infantry hidden between the houses.

Soon, infantry guns and anti-tank guns were deployed to the edge of the forest, using direct aim to remove the exposed firing points of the Soviet troops one by one.

From time to time, Soviet tanks flashed between the streets and houses of Soviet-controlled cities, which served as mobile batteries and roamed the streets, tank guns and vehicle-mounted machine guns, frantically pouring ammunition on the Germans in the forests outside the city.

It was not until the soldiers of the Blackwater Special Reconnaissance Regiment followed up to the line of fire that the stalemate in the battle situation was broken.

Under the radio guidance of the scouts, the artillery in the rear concentrated their fire and bombarded the southeast corner of the battle line, destroying the houses one by one with a dense barrage of shells.

The bricks and stones after the collapse of the house buried the Soviet soldiers in the house.

As soon as the shelling stopped, the German infantry hidden nearby rushed into the city and immediately engaged the defenders in street fighting.

The street fighting continued into the afternoon.

At about 5:40 p.m., a HE-111 medium bomber, under the cover of four ME-109 fighters, flew over the Gulf of Finland and landed at an airfield on the southeastern outskirts of the city of Luga.

About an hour and a half after the plane landed, Chen Dao woke up from the effects of sleeping pills.

Chen Dao arrived at the headquarters of Army Group North in Luga by car, and again reported to the skinhead Marshal Loeb.

"Mr. Marshal, I'm back, the street fighting training class can start early tomorrow morning."

After receiving an affirmative reply from Marshal Loeb, Chen Dao asked: "The day after tomorrow is September 8, the day when the general offensive is launched, how are our preparations going?" Is there anything I can do to help? ”

Major General Morse said: "Our preparations for the offensive are going well, and the 57th Panzer Corps has launched an offensive in the direction of Lake Ladoga this morning, striving to cut off the connection between the two Soviet fronts as soon as possible, so that the Soviet army in Leningrad will become a lone army." ”

"It's already started today? It's only the sixth today・・・・・・ but it's okay to cut off the defenders from the outside world and leave them alone is the most crucial step in attacking a large city. Chen Dao said.

"Tomorrow there is still a day to prepare, and you and the boys of naval aviation will carefully study how to destroy the Russian fleet in the Gulf of Finland and try to destroy them in the shortest possible time." Marshal Loeb said.

Following Marshal Loeb's advice, Chen Dao returned to the airfield outside Luga to discuss the battle plan with Rear Admiral Hans von Hersmann, the battlefield commander of the Naval Air Force.

After some careful consideration, Chen Dao and Major General Hirschman made a decisive decision.

Let the pilots of the naval aviation be tested in actual combat and learn from actual combat experience, and it is not necessarily necessary to find the Russian navy as an opponent.

In short, there is still a day to spare on September 7, and it is necessary to find something to do for the pilots of the naval aviation.

It's all bombing, and it's all bombing.

With this belief, Chen Dao found General Kong Cen, commander of the 57th Armored Army, overnight.